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Getting a new dog or puppy can be a very exciting time for the whole family but you will want to do some training with your dog, notice I said with and not train your dog, this is because you are going to have to learn some new skills when you start your training.

You do have some choices when you first start to think about your basic dog training, do you train the dog yourself or do you call in a dog training professional?

Both choices have their merits if you train the dog your self then you are bonding with your dog every time you do it, you are also learning how your dog reacts to different situations. Hiring a professional gives you the immediate expertise and you are able to correct any mistakes you might have made by training your dog yourself.

A mix of the two is probably the best way to go, join a dog training class, this will help keep the costs under control, but also give you the professional direction for your home training. When I got my first dog I read as much as I could and learned what techniques worked and then I visited 3 different trainers who were holding classes, I found one that I could communicate well with and attended the classes once a week while doing daily training at home with my dog using the lessons I had read about. That was over 30 years ago and the library was my best stop to find information but now the internet offers millions of sites and articles on dog training so you should make the most of it.

The three things I feel are a must during your basic dog training are patience, environment and praise let me explain.

Patience- your dog does not speak the same language as you so you must realise that it is going to take some time before you saying sit will get your dog to sit, repetition and reward are the key to getting the message across, but remember please be patient.

Environment- you must think about where you train your dog, you should avoid noisy and distracting places, as you will need your dog to be able to hear what you are saying and he must also be able to concentrate. Remember that your dog is excited about the world around him and if there is something new and interesting around him he will want to check it out, so you should find somewhere quiet and free from distractions.

Praise- your dog wants to make you happy, so when he does something right let him know you are happy that he has done that, lots of praise when your dog gets it right.

If you follow these three basic guidelines you will find your training is a lot easier to concentrate on and your dog will get much more from it, a little training done often is better than long training sessions dome infrequently, this is because your dog will start to get board doing the same thing over and over again, but if you split the lesions in to shorter chunks then your dog will look forward to the sessions and enjoy them when you run them.

Sean D teaches you all you need to know about training your dog..

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After planning permission was granted, construction began.

Now the ‘Good Homes Alliance’ are planning a visit to Cornwall, for an assessment of what is being billed as a ‘zero-carbon village’.

The village’s buildings are being constructed under the protocol of ‘Green Building’, meaning that their production will have to be energy efficient and sustainable.

Indeed the houses are being developed using recovered timber and Cornish slate from local sources, all of which are deemed sustainable themselves. Clay, too, will be one of the main materials used for construction.

There is also a stipulation on the project that carbon emission offsetting cannot be used to achieve the aim; the production and construction of the site must be done with a zero emissions output.

In all, the village will contain 6 houses, 19 units - small sections of one larger building - and 13 one or two bedroom apartments.

A similar project in Bristol is coming to the final planning stages.

Headed by the ‘English Partnerships’, who sanctioned a competition for the contract to build the zero carbon villages, the site is planned to have 150 homes.

Those in contention on the competition’s shortlist are: Barrat homes with HTA, Edward Ware Homes with Acanthus Ferguson Mann Architechts, Taylor Wimpey with Broadway Malyan, Places for People with PRP architects, Artisan H with Feilden Clegg Bradley, and Urban Splash South West.

The winner of the competition - as well as gaining the contract for the construction of the homes - will also win the ‘Carbon Challenge’ award, devised and officiated by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Indeed the winner of this year’s award will be the inaugural winner of the ‘Carbon Challenge’.

On top of the Bristol and Cornwall projects, there are plans for another 5 villages nationwide. The move is taken on the back of the recent statistic that 27% of the U.K’s annual carbon emissions come from its households. And with plans to lower Britain’s carbon emissions by 60% come the year 2050, the zero-carbon villages in Cornwall and Bristol could prove to be valuable blueprints for green building and sustainable energy.

The suggestion marks a growing concern for the U.K’s future energy efficiency levels, and one that has included potential plans for electric cars and new solar and wind farms.

Some experts are suggesting that this growing conciousness could spark a boom in employment and finance.

Earlier this month the ‘Environmental change Institute’, situated at Oxford University, predicted that green building would generate up to £6.5 billion for the building market. And - if proposals for the recent ‘Green New Deal’ are accepted and legitimised by the government - green building could create a substantial number of jobs, too.

Many, then, will view the successes and failures of the Cornwall and Bristol zero carbon villages as the first example of the government’s new green agenda. If they are to succeed, it can spur the production of similar sites across the country; failure could mean a rethink of current proposals and systems.

Chris Woolfrey is the carbon emissions expert at EcoSwitch The environmental social network.

Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter

In 2003, I moved to Little Rock, AR, and I was amazed with how helpful my new property manager was. If you haven’t moved recently, you may have forgotten all the joy associated with having to arrange to shut off your utilities, phone, cable, etc. and arrange to have them hooked up at your new location. Then, you have to deal with mail forwarding, finding new service providers for all aspects of your life, and then deal with the move itself. When I made a cross-country move in 1998 from MA to TX, I had the luxury of being able to quit my job and focus solely on the move and on selling unwanted items. Now, as a solo business owner, I no longer have that luxury, and the processed caused a meltdown or two.

However, my saving grace was my property manager.. The information and resources that she had available has greatly decreased the amount of time I’d need to find this info on my own, and in some cases, she had her own contacts with some of the companies. For example, upon my decision to rent from her company and completing the paperwork, she handed me a packet of info to help with my move. Within that I found contacts for the electric, gas, telephone and water companies, along with the deposit fees required and installation charges I could expect to pay. There was a brochure from the cable company with all the options available from them, along with the pricing of their services. All of this info was in a great folder from a moving company with moving tips, in addition to having mail forwarding cards that I could complete and return to my local post office. I was talking to her about my options for a mover, and she proceeded to open the Little Rock phone directory and found the name of a moving company she could recommend, as well as ripping out a discount coupon for them from the back of the book. When I decided that I wanted to rent a PO Box as a business address for my business, I called her and discovered the branches of the USPS that are close to my new home. I can honestly say that I’ve never had such a great one-stop shopping experience in my entire life!

And, it didn’t end there! While in her office, I noticed that she had bookcases full of videos and DVDs. The residents of all of the properties owned by the company could drop by the office and check out videos at no charge. What an amazing array of resources I had at my disposal! I truly felt I had gotten exceptional service from this company because of all the resources that my property manager had at her disposal that provided solutions to the problems I was having.

The idea of being in the solutions business came to me when I read about an article in the Arizona Republic regarding a child care facility in Ohio that offers fresh Starbuck’s coffee for the parents when they drop off their children in the morning, a dry cleaner drop-off service, as well as home-cooked and healthy meals that parents can take home with them when they pick their kids up. Now, isn’t that a big jump from offering child care services to offering a solution for really busy parents?

So, how can you be a solutions provider instead of a service provider in your business?

The first way is to identify ALL of the problems that your clients may have. If you’re not sure what those are, ask them! Your business may not be able to help solve all of them, but you may be able to help your client with those that are most pressing. Brainstorming these may cause you to have to think outside the box and figure out how you might best serve your client. You will probably discover that you’ll need to have a list of tried-and-true reliable service professionals at your disposal.

If you don’t have a list of professionals at hand, there’s no time like the present to create this list. If you can create strategic alliances with other businesses who can service your client base, by how much might all of your businesses profit from such an alliance? There’s strength in numbers, and truly the business owners with the biggest Rolodex and the greatest number of contacts wins!

Your clients are busy — heck, we’re all busy these days. Anything you can do to save them money, time, or energy will engender their lifelong loyalty to you, and lifetime referrals! Start providing solutions to your clients, and they’ll become your most vocal referral agents!

We are living at an incredible time and anyone that is following the spiritual path knows that the earth is changing, which in effect, propels human beings to evolve/change as well. There is no escaping. Those that are resisting the changes because they are not aware of what is going on, their lives will show much turmoil and chaos. All one has to do is look outside and see this for themselves. This is not top secret, it is wake up time. The inner search has finally been put into high gear for many! People no longer believe in other humans who once stood on high pedestals, as those pedestals are crumbling beneath their feet. Many people are finally turning inward to search for the truth within their own beings, instead of relying on and trusting outside sources. Finding new spiritual tools to help us upon our journey is at an all time high.

I believe that one of the most powerful tools we have right now is a spiritual energy called The Violet Flame of Transmutation. Using the Violet Flame along with energy work is an excellent and very powerful combination. Although the Violet Flame has been around for many years, we are finally finding ways to use it to change all areas of our lives - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. In this article I will share a very self-empowering way that you too can use the Violet Flame in your life.

The knowledge of the Violet Flame was brought forth to us by Ascended Master St. Germain. For seven decades Lightworkers around the world have been invoking the Violet Flame for various causes. The Violet Flame has the ability to transform all fear based thoughts and emotions into love based thoughts and emotions. It can transform anxiety into peace, hatred into love and fear into courage. The Violet Flame is a tool that can help release karma, raise your vibration and consciousness, accelerate spiritual growth and activate your DNA. If you use energetic releasing programs to help you clear out your issues faster, such as the Lightarian Clearing Program or the Practical Mastery Series that I offer, along with the Violet Flame you have an incredible self-empowering tool to help transform the quality of your life. The Violet Flame can help you with all emotional and mental problems if you believe in its power! It can help to relieve stress, anger, sadness, depression etc. It is a gift that transmutes human mis-creations that we have created through the power and misuse of our own thoughts and feelings.

When I first started my healing journey, I like most people attended group meetings to learn how to better myself. I was taught in this group that when you said or did something negative, if you realized immediately that this is not the energy you wanted to put out to the Universe, you could say “Cancel, Cancel, Cancel” and the energy of that thought or action would be erased, as quick as snapping your fingers. In the beginning I believed this was a truth and yes I began using it! The fact was when I first started my own healing journey my life was a complete mess, so any trick given that could change my life I was going to implement.

After spending some time within this group I observed this in action with those that used it frequently and wondered how one could put out negative energy and then depend on saying the words cancel, cancel, cancel and expect all to be ok? From everything that I had been studying on my own I was under the impression that if one followed a spiritual path, a life of joy and happiness would soon appear. I would witness people saying cancel all the time! I too would have a thought pop in my head and immediately say cancel! I was only doing what I was taught and believed to be true. The difference with me though, I had to know why my life was not changing to joy and happiness even though I was implementing the grand cancellation policy!? It was making no sense to me, I mean I was using the cancel tool! Then it really hit me. Why was this group of people that I was investing my time and energy with not enjoying the quality of their lives either? This cancel aspect began not sitting well with me so I had to figure out how this could be possible that saying the words cancel stopped the negative flow of energy.

I discovered two things during my research. First off those that were teaching me the cancel policy were only half right. They were teaching from the belief that we are the creators of our life, and yes this is what I still believe. Upon researching I discovered the key part that they didn’t teach, understand or perhaps didn’t know about and that is, there is no such thing as destroying energy. It is impossible. The only thing a person can do is change the energy into a different form. You cannot say cancel, cancel, cancel and expect it to go away! If you sent the energy out, you are responsible for it and it will come back to you. That is after all the law of attraction! With this new understanding I figured out why my life wasn’t changing! I was still sending out the lower vibrational frequencies even though I desired a better life. Using the Violet Flame as a tool can allow us to quickly transmute the negativity from our lives but only if applied appropriately.

Now that we are aware of our creating powers, and yes each and everyone one of us is a powerful creator! We must work at controlling our thoughts and emotions and focus our attention on what it is that we want to create or manifest in our lives. We are magnetic energetic beings and our vibrational frequency is what pulls or attracts to us the same or very similar vibrational frequency that we are putting out. Therefore the full circle, boomerang effect or what comes around, goes around. Put out any feelings of negativity - and negativity will come right back to you. Put out any feelings of lack, lack comes right back to you. The other side of the coin, change the frequency to a higher vibrational thought or emotion. If you put out the feeling of love - love comes right back to you. If you put out the feeling of abundance, abundance comes right back to you.

Do you see how powerful we really are? Our thoughts put together with our emotions create our way of daily living. So start today by changing your thoughts and emotions, to generate the change within your world! We can invoke the Violet Flame to transmute our misqualified thoughts and feelings from the past, and we can empower our efforts with using affirmations to succeed in the life we desire to create. You are the only one that has power over your life. You create your tomorrow by your daily thoughts and emotions that you express today. You are the creator.

I use the Violet Flame when I am doing healing work on myself. I also suggest to my clients that they too invoke the Violet Flame to transmute all they are releasing. The Violet Flame has qualities of mercy, forgiveness, freedom and transmutation. The Violet Flame has the power to erase, or transmute the cause, the effect, and even the memory of our past mistakes! This IS an incredible tool!

When we consciously choose to implement energetic healing programs in our life to speed up the clearing/releasing/healing process, we are aware and ready to make positive choices during the releasing process. Therefore when I ask my clients to empower themselves and use the Violet Flame, they are ready and prepared to take positive action.

For those of us that are being thrown into the releasing process caused by perceived outside circumstances, we need a tool to help relieve the negative energy/feelings we are releasing/experiencing. I’m going to use anger as our example because at the time of this writing it is prevalent upon the earth.

At any point in our life we always have an abundance of emotions flowing through us. As explained earlier we are magnetic beings. That means that whatever energy/emotion we flow out from our being, we attract back to ourselves. Yes, emotions are energy! So let’s say one day you are mad and you project that anger at your husband, child, co-worker etc. This anger that you have now projected out WILL come back to you; remember “What goes around comes around!” It does not necessarily come back from those that you projected it too. It may come back to you by the guy that cuts you off on the highway! In order to stop the anger boomerang effect, implement this tool. As soon as the feelings of anger start, immediately stop, take a breath and say (in your mind is fine), “I call upon the Violet Flame to transmute the cause, core, effect, record and memory of these anger feelings Now!” Take another breath and within a matter of seconds these feelings of anger will have been transmuted and feel much less powerful than they did only seconds before. Therefore the venom/karma that you could have potentially directed towards another individual has been stopped dead in its track!

You took immediate action and empowered yourself by refraining to give into the urge of expressing your anger in a negative way. Congratulations, but you are not done! You need to immediately raise the anger vibration, which is a very dense, heavy energy into a higher vibrational emotion. Redirect your thoughts to something that makes you feel joy! Something that makes you smile from ear to ear. If you do not implement the higher vibrational emotion, you will stay stuck in the lower, denser vibratory frequency. It is important to raise your frequency if you desire to create a positive, joyful existence. Positive thoughts and emotions attract positive experiences!

You can use this technique for every negative emotion that comes into your life. If you are not expressing love, than you are expressing fear. Love based emotions are feelings of joy, happiness, bliss, peace, calm etc. Fear based emotions are the opposite of love which are hate, anger, sadness, confusion, depressed, etc. Whenever a fear based emotion creeps up on you, immediately use the Violet Flame to transmute the energy. Eventually, with work these feelings of fear will come up less and less in your life because you have found a tool to release them positively instead of having to recycle them and learn again by the boomerang! You will also notice after repeated use your life changing for the positive because you are raising your own vibrational energetic frequency! Always remember the law of attraction. What you put out you will attract back.

I invite you to start creating the life you desire today!

Until our paths cross again, keep smiling and play in love!

Copyright 2004-2006 Lisa Whatley, an Indigo/Crystal Adult, Master Energy Facilitator, Writer, Mother of four Indigo/Crystal children and Spiritual Ascension Life Coach interweaves body, mind and spirit into her work. Lisa’s spiritual path and connection with God has lead her to a place of knowing that all things are possible! She has helped many people change their lives using the same self-empowerment teachings that helped to transform her own life, helping them find peace, joy and stability. She currently offers energetic sessions for DNA Activation, Clearing, Healing, Balancing, Spiritual Growth, Enlightenment and Life Coaching. She resides in the beautiful countryside of Northern Ontario Canada. Website http://www.InfinityLightHealing.com

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This morning, I went to take a short walk outside. I’ve been feeling a little more flexible since this weekend, and I figured a stroll would help me keep that liquid feeling in my bones that I’ve missed so much.

I stopped when I came to a tree and had myself a sit-down.

Have you ever gazed at the glory of a tree? I’ll spare you the poem (you know the one, “I think that I shall never see…”). But I must say that trees have been one of the chief inspirations of my life, number two behind natural bodies of water.

You can easily miss the marvel of oaks and pines in the midst of the daily bustle. They really are miracles when you think about it.

One day, years ago, the wind, or a happy world citizen like you or me, put a tiny seed in the ground, maybe smaller than a pea, or about as big as the tip of your thumb.

Each day water from heaven or from a heaven-sent caretaker would caress or massage the ground with moist blessings. Each day the sun would whisper from behind clouds at it, or scream in a blistering tone.

And for weeks, months even, it seemed as if nothing was happening.

But underground, far below where you or I could witness, molecules were bumping into each other, atoms were hopping around, electrons were spinning. Then after a time roots began to spiral out into the soil.

And long after anyone human was really giving it any daily, specific thoughts beyond routine tendering, a little sprout started pushing up through the earth.

A dozen or a few hundred years later, there I am, sitting under the tree, thinking about trees and business.

The lessons nature volunteers us are fascinating, if only we’d listen. Our businesses, big and small, are like these trees. We put $1000, $200, $3 million into the investments that form our ventures - saved, borrowed, earned from past sales.

Every day we do a little more. Sometimes we do a lot more. And we, in our human impatience, often watch the location where we buried our money, looking for signs of life the very next day, sometimes the next hour.

“I bought this computer three months ago. How come there isn’t cash coming out of the DVD drive?”

Seems like a ridiculous question right now, doesn’t it?

But we behave that way all the time. I’m guilty of it too. Many is the time that I’ve whined about how some new promotional idea I’m testing didn’t return my deposit of time or money in 3 days.

Then all of a sudden, on that fourth day, I have more sales in 24 hours than I had the whole week before.

Sometimes it takes even longer. I used to look at people who would come on the Net, buy a couple of ebooks and fall bass ackwards into cash 90 days later. And I’d think “Why not me? What am I missing? What did they do that I didn’t?”

And the lesson I learned from that seven year experience were two things.

(Seven years including the small time, inconsistent returns I used to have before I really started to learn to study and be patient. As I’ve said before, I started making advertising money about two years in, enough to feel like an extra paycheck a month)

I’ll tell you my lessons learned in part two….

Tinu is a web site promotion specialist and the author of several books on search engines, blogging, and RSS. You can read more tips on branding your business with a blog at Free Traffic Tips.

In my earlier article “Who’s Got The Monkey Now? How To Find Out How Well You Manage Your Time” (http://www.nationallearning.com.au/index_files/HowToMakePeopleFeelBetterAtWork.htm) , I suggested that you may be caring for a cageful of monkeys (other people’s problems) unless you are managing your time effectively, and in particular delegating.

For managers, there are two key aspects to successful delegation:

• Having people to whom one can delegate, and
• Selecting the most appropriate tasks to delegate

If you are not a manager, or do not have anyone to delegate to, then I suggest the excellent article by Beth Schneider (http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Delegate-When-There-is-No-One-to-Delegate-To&id=141500).

The key to delegation is to develop within your people, the “initiative to take action” so that they learn to develop their skills and knowledge to their full potential.

Managers who are successful are always good at delegating. Less successful managers, when asked why they don’t delegate more, often reply

• “If only my staff were more experienced” or,
• “I don’t have enough faith in my staff to do the job properly” or,
• “Delegation. Sounds great in theory, but I need to have fully trained staff and I don’t have the time to train them”.

If some of these comments sound familiar to you, then the following steps will show you how to:

• Identify the current “level of initiative” of each of your team members.
• Use the “level of initiative” ranking with your team to further develop their skills and knowledge.

When delegating, it is important to fit the task to the person and to ensure the reason for delegating is appropriate.

Firstly, let’s look at the person. Is it possible to delegate to all your team members? For delegation purposes, team members may be classified as those who:

1. Wait until he or she is told what to do.
2. Do what is necessary, but refer to their manager or supervisor all problems or slightly unusual issues for a decision.
3. Refer all problems or unusual occurrences for a decision, but when doing so recommend appropriate action.
4. Take action on problems as they occur and then immediately report on the action taken.
5. Take action on all issues and problems on his her own initiative and then report periodically on progress.

Less successful managers keep their team members at the second level, i.e.

• Do what is necessary, but refer to their supervisor all problems or slightly unusual issues for a decision, by not encouraging them to make recommendations on problems or issues they encounter. As a consequence, their people rarely develop the knoweldge or skills they need to become fully competent.

Successful managers quickly move all their people through to at least level three i.e.

• Refer all problems or unusual occurrences for a decision, but when doing so recommend appropriate action.

When people are at level three, they are always looking for solutions rather than just stating the problem. Not only do they look for solutions, but when they do bring a problem to you, they bring their recommended solution. Wouldn’t your life as a manager be so much easier if all your people did this?

Successful managers then move individual staff from level three through levels four and five depending on the particular team member’s skill and how quickly they can gain the necessary experience.

Many successful managers take this one step further by involving their team members in the process of “developing initiative”. For instance, they explain the five-step “level of initiative” process to them and then ask:

• What level do you believe you are at now on each of your major job responsibilities?
• How can you move to the next level?

Using this approach, managers can then be very clear about which aspects of a person’s job the team member can take initiative on, and how much initiative they may take. It is also a great opportunity to talk about training and development strategies to help move people to the next level on particular job responsibilities. In this way, you know exactly who within your team, you can delegate certain tasks to and most importantly, how they will respond.

I have developed a Delegation Matrix of the five Levels of Initiative which I have been using with practising managers for many years. If you would like a free copy, please contact me via www.nationallearning.com.au

Let’s now look at the second aspect of delegation - tasks that may be delegated.

Tasks suitable for delegation include:

• Minor and repetitive decisions.
• Tasks you are expert in and that others should learn.
• Tasks for which you are least qualified, but that others could learn.
• Tasks you dislike, provided someone else likes them (delegation should not be an excuse to dump unpleasant tasks).
• Tasks that add variety and interest to another person’s role.
• Tasks that will increase the number of people who can perform critical assignments.

Which tasks could you delegate? Remember these remain part of your job and while you can delegate responsibility for them, you remain accountable for each.

One of the questions I am often asked by managers is

• “How do I keep track of what’s been delegated?”

If you use the Levels of Initiative protocol by discussing and agreeing each person’s permitted level of initiative, you will note that levels 3,4 & 5 all have built in reporting mechanisms. Make sure you agree how these will operate with your people.

Following the guidelines outlined here, will allow you to release some of your monkeys back to where they can be cared for and fed by others - your team!

Copyright 2006 The National Learning Institute

Bob Selden is the Managing Director of the National Learning Institute. He is a part time member of faculty at the International Management Development Institute in Lausanne and the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney. You can contact Bob at http://www.nationallearning.com.au/

Public Function & Image

Members of the British Royal Family take on several tens of hundreds of community appointments year on year, right away through Great Britain as officially recorded in the Court Circular, to credit, support & to find out about the triumphs or events of people organisations and firms in a selection of sections of life. As representatives of the sovereign, they continually connect with the public in celebrating past times, breaks, celebratory and disastrous episodes & often also sponsors or participates in several charitable, intellectual and public activities.

Their tours abroad on behalf of the U.K. (called State Visits when the Queen publicly visits other heads of state) brings public interest to good-natured links within and between the Commonwealth and other nations, to British supplies and trade, & to Britain as a historical, vacation, & visitor location. Their present tasks and conventional functions makes up the height of a recent “royal court,” & provide a clearly British and historical pomp to ceremonies (For example, Trooping the Colour) & outlook to public demonstrations (Like that of the State Parties, Ascot).

Right the way through their lives they receive a massive amount of public coverage in the way of photographic, printed & televised commentary on the topic of their daily activities, family associations, means of passage, qualities, clothing, behaviour, and public tasks.

Royal Payment

Cash that aid the Monarch in the implementation of her obligations as the head of state of the United Kingdom comes from the Civil List. This is a return of a small share of the proceedings from the Crown Lands that are provided by the Queen to parliament at the foundation of every reign; all Crown Land being handled by The Crown Estates, an association that is solely responsible to parliament. In the 2003-04 monetary year, the amount provided was one-hundred and seventy six million pounds, where the Head of State’s payments was only thirty-six million pounds. The Queen’s payments does not however encompass the charge of guards. If you are travelling to England then why not find out more about the Royal Family History at enjoyEngland.com today.

It is a shame that proper behavior, respect, and ethics do not make great headlines in the newspapers. Just watch the news, and read the newspaper for a week, to confirm what makes “good copy.” It will not take long for you to find a dozen, or dozens, of scandals.

We all make mistakes, and none of us wants to have them in print, but some are preventable. Here are some guidelines for Yoga teachers to consider when teaching their students. As a leader and role model, your ethical behavior will be duplicated by your Yoga students.

There is no need for an air of superiority within the Yoga class. Everyone is good at something, so why waste time and energy trying to impress your students, or the public, about your ability as a Yoga instructor. If students are attending your Yoga classes, they are already impressed, so there is no need to turn your Yoga studio into a “circus act.”

If someone does not practice Yoga, or is not a vegetarian, please do not bolster your ego over the issue. Do not engage in hostile debates over these issues. There is a time, place, and method for convincing people about health issues, but hostility will not convince anyone.

Bias and discrimination are hard habits to break. Sometimes, these ideas exist within families for generations. Yoga teachers should accept students, regardless of race, religion, gender, ethnic origin, age, social status, or any other reason we can find to be unjustifiably bias.

In the case of age - children who are too young may have a separate Yoga class, but this depends on the patience of the Yoga teacher and the group. Some “Mommy and me” Yoga classes run along smoothly, but some adult Yoga students do not want to be in a Yoga class with children.

I teach children four years of age and up, but it is specifically within a “Kids Yoga” class. This is much different from a typical adult Yoga class, and the circus act I mentioned earlier might be fine. Do not be surprised to see children perform difficult asanas, but do not expose them to hazards.

In the course of a week, I teach many Chair Yoga classes, and these are age specific. However, when seniors show up to a Yoga class, at a Yoga studio, or ashram, they should be welcomed and modifications should be taught - if they are needed.

Getting back to discrimination in general: The largest problem with bias is our history of war crimes, holocaust, atrocities, and slavery. Discrimination cannot go unchecked, and it has no place anywhere, especially in a Yoga studio or ashram. If you teach Yoga to a specific religious sect, that is fine, but do not speak harshly of those who are not present.

It comes down to the golden rule, which is very universal to most of the world’s religions, and I will conclude this part with a quote. Most of you will recognize a much similar quote within your own religion. It does shed light on the wisdom of our ancestors.

“This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you.” Mahabharata 5,1517

Paul Jerard is a co-owner and the director of Yoga teacher training at: Aura Wellness Center, in North Providence, RI. He has been a certified Master Yoga teacher since 1995. He is a master instructor of martial arts, with multiple Black Belts, four martial arts teaching credentials, and was recently inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He teaches Yoga, martial arts, and fitness to children, adults, and seniors in the greater Providence area. Recently he wrote: Is Running a Yoga Business Right for You? For Yoga students, who may be considering a new career as a Yoga teacher. http://www.yoga-teacher-training.org/index.html

Back pain can be caused by a variety of reasons and is generally a very painful condition that requires diligent attention and treatment. Pains below the waist are often called lower back pains and can be caused my muscle pulls or straining the muscles with heavy work or lifting heavy objects, moving or sleeping in awkward position etc.

Spinal infections and fractures might also cause lower back pain. In most cases the cause of the problem is that a particular nerve or a set of nerves are being pinched. The pinching can be caused due to the rupture of a disc in the spinal card or when a disc bulges and presses a nerve root. This causes a lot of pain to the patient. Sometimes the pain will decrease or go away completely by sitting or bending in a particular position etc. but if the pain continues, a check-up is necessary

Lower back surgery is the solution when such a pain continues for a period of time or becomes unbearable. Before considering lower back surgery, the patient has to consult their doctor or physician and check out the various options available and also get a complete information about the lower back surgery procedure, its recovery procedures, risks involved, expected costs etc.

Sometimes other options like traction, physiotherapy and others can be used in the place of lower back surgery if the problem is mild and curable. Lower back surgery is not a minor surgery and has to be approached with care. Patients are normally advised to do mild exercises and keep themselves healthy before the operation and might also be told to quick smoking.

The surgery might involve making cuts and incisions and moving the muscles so that the surgeon gets a good look and approach on the spine, the discs etc. Newer inventions like Lasers and bone grafts with genetically engineered protein that induce a persons bones to grow and fuse together have been making the lower back surgery a more simple, safe and easy procedure. They help the surgeon by removing the need to make large cuts or incisions etc and help the patient by reducing the risks and pain involved , thus speeding up the recovery procedure.

After the lower back surgery, the patients should try to maintain good health and fitness. Exercises will be advised for the patient for the patient. Exercises or other treatments like Yoga etc have to be practiced with great care and only with qualified teachers. Also the teachers or trainers should be aware of the lower back surgery and details.

To learn more about the pro’s & con’s of back surgery, visit Back Surgery Information webpage. Also, visit Surgery Information Guide website for help related to various types of surgeries like ear surgery, eye surgery, brain surgery and more…

Remember the time when you see a jerk that has no looks, no sense of dress code with his arm over the shoulder of a pretty and very sweet girl; walking down the street. You think to yourself, how in the world does he do it? You are a much matter boyfriend in all fields as compared to the Joker.

Allow me to ask you this.

How would you be as a boyfriend? What would you do to make the girl fall for you? If you say you can be a better boyfriend, what would you do different than the joker?

Would you give her flowers? expensive gifts? Have a candle light dinner with her? Treat her like a queen? Pamper her like no one else has before?

If you think the above will make you a better boyfriend, you are watching too much movies.

No one will fall for your. There are too many people that can give her flowers, spend on expensive gifts, and pamper her. What make you different? What makes the jerk different?

The jerk might or might not realize it, but he is practicing this theory called the “Roller-Coaster”.

You notice that a roller coaster is not flat. It would be no fun if it were. A roller coaster is a series of up-and-down motion. When you go up, you feel relaxed, or scared, when you come down, you feel excited or panic, exhilarated. And so on. The roller coaster makes everyone’s palm sweat. But people like the roller coaster because it makes us feel.

You have to be like a roller coaster to your girl. Make her feel intense happiness when she is around you. How do you make someone feel that? You make them feel sad first. Make them hurt. Make them jealous.

Once you have made them hurt enough, go back and beg for their forgiveness. The more you hurt them, the more you need to plea for forgiveness. But the more intense the feelings you give them. And the more the love you will receive once you are forgiven.

*Please note, when I say hurt them, I mean emotionally. NEVER abuse anyone physically.

Humans are a strange bunch. We will love the people that can change our mood. Especially those people that can change our mood to a happy one. Think of the movies. What differentiates a good movie from a bad one? A good movie makes the audience feel. Some movies gives us a happy feeling, some, a fearful feeling or feelings of adventure, anything! What you want to aim for is to make your girl feel things.

Many girls say that their Date is Boring because their date are not making them feel things. Make them Feel. Think of the feeling you want to give your girl for the day. Then ask yourself, how you can make her feel what you want her to feel.

Now that your know how to make your girl crazy over you, go out there and have fun!